LEGITIMNOST, DRŽAVA I CIVILNO DRUŠTVO
LEGITIMACY, STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY

Author(s): Vučina Vasović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Society, Political behavior, Politics and society
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: political legitimacy; state; democracy; civil society
Summary/Abstract: The political and democratic transition in the part of the former Yugoslavia, which today is known as the union of Serbia and Montenegro, is full of numerous difficulties and problems. The expectations that after the fall of the former real-socialist regime and the successful pluralist liberal revolution, Serbia and Montenegro would start on the path of faster socio-economic, cultural and democratic development did not come true. The biggest surprises and setbacks occur in the political sphere, that is, exactly where the biggest and fastest steps in the direction of democratic development were expected. On the example of the union of Serbia and Montenegro, it can be clearly shown how much stagnation in the political-legal sphere represents obstacles for the expected development in all other areas of social life. The author of this paper shows the character and severity of these obstacles by analyzing the state of political legitimacy, the state, democracy and civil society in the community of Serbia and Montenegro.

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